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Playing Bingo for Fun

One of the activities that the resort we stayed at in Mahabaleshwar, on our recent vacation – was playing bingo for fun (bingo is also referred to as tambola and housie in India). Every evening the resort organizes bingo for the guests, mostly outdoors. I wasn’t able to get a good photograph, but this was where it took place. Nice location, right?

Playing Bingo For Fun

Add some chilled out folks, some kids, a very animated organizer and a bonfire and it was fun. But most of all, it made me realize just how much I enjoy playing bing0. The suspense of waiting, the hoping, the sitting on the edge of your seat waiting for that one number to be called!

While playing bingo for fun, I began to think if the concentration, the listening for numbers, the excitement was a great way to keep your mind alert! So I went off to do some research on it and here’s what I found.

How a simple bingo game every now and again can help

In a national study in Britain for the AARP, Gretchen Anderson said that just over one-third of middle-aged survey respondents reported being lonely, with two-thirds of the respondents saying that they have no specific reason for feeling this way. Loneliness is something that everybody feels from time to time, but it seems as though the feeling becomes amplified when we reach our 40s.

While this loneliness can often be alleviated by doing household chores and spending time with your family, it might also be a good idea to take up a new hobby — one that introduces you to new people, and allows for great opportunities for socialization but doesn’t wear you out too much. If you have yet to find the perfect hobby, then you may want to try to play a few rounds of bingo.

Bingo is often touted as an old person’s game, but don’t let that dissuade you from trying out your local bingo hall. In recent years, bingo has seen a great increase in popularity in younger audiences, particularly because of the evolution it has undergone. As the BBC reports, online bingo has become something of a full house. Players claim that this is mostly because of the sense of community that online bingo brings to the table. Communities are one of the most important parts in online bingo, and most players stay because of engaging chat hosts and competitions on social media, where players can chat with others and swap stories while playing.

There are also so many different kinds of people playing bingo. In Chicago, Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman Billy Corgan hosts monthly bingo nights, attracting young people and hipsters who’ve never played the game before. There are also several different kinds of bingo now, and the old image of bingo as played in a silent bingo hall with a bored bingo caller speaking in a drone has long been replaced by lively crowds entertained by a droll bingo host.

You’d be surprised how much keeping busy can help you, especially when you keep busy doing something fun like playing bingo.

My mother used to enjoy a good game of Bingo with her group of friends…twice a month. I still remember how her face used to light up when she would recount the thrill. Reading this brings back the memory of her bright, shining face so clearly in my eyes…thanks Corinne for this post 🙂

I love to play Bingo!! It is so much fun and often when we go camping during the summer months the campground offers Bingo games for everyone to join in. Sometimes for candy. LOL that and the promise of maybe winning chocolate. YUM

I wasn’t even aware of online bingo!! Bingo is an easy game which makes it perfect for large mixed gatherings, like a family get-together. The location in the photo looks perfect, the bonfire must have really added to the fun!

Last fall a group of friends and I went to – get this – Drag Queen Bingo! Yes, it was an evening of bingo with the numbers being called by a drag queen in full regalia. It was absolutely hilarious, and a ton of fun (though admittedly not for everyone)!

Oh Bingo!!! I remember once in Shimla they used to play Bingo too.. and it was so much fun. The most I remember is that everytime there was a draw between two people the organiser ..a sweet simple young lad, used to say…”Good. it is divide by 50:50″